PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. §99 



mversis ; petulLs oblique | flowers inverted ; petals 

 flexis. Sp. pL 1 . p. 1 i6s. I obliquely bent. 



Pursh, 1. p, 173. 



V. cordata, Walt, p. 219. 



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Perennial. Leaves sometimes reniform, crenate, when young the 

 anfijles involute. Pediincles longer tlmn the leaves^ with the summit 

 renexed. Petals blue and purple, white at Lase j the ba^e of the upper 

 one with violet coloured veins j of the two lateral, bearded j of the 

 lower, smooth. 



Sometinies, thoucrh rarely, some of the older leaves become lobed^ 

 Grows in damp, stiff clayey toils. Very commoHi 

 Flowers March — April. 



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7. AsARiFOLiA. Pursh. 



V. acaulis, pubescens ; | . Stemless, pubescent 

 foliis dilatato-reniformi- j leaves dilated renitorni 

 bus,acutis,crenato-denta- I acute, crenate or toothe>I^ 

 tis, basiin petiolum atten- the base tapering to a 

 uatls ; pedunculis foliis | petiole ; peduncles much 

 multobrevioribus. Pursh, I shoi 



p. 73S. 



Collected by Catesby, in Virginia and Carolina, and described by 

 Pursh from the herbarium of Sherard 



The V. asarifolJa of Muhlenberg's Catalogue, which he afterwards 

 proposed to call uliginosa, is a caulescent species, and very distinct 

 from this. 



Grows in damp, shady woods. 



Flowers 



8. Sagittata. 



V. acaulis ; foliis ob- | Stemless ; leaves oh- 

 longisj acutis, cordato-sa- j long, acute, cordate sagit- 

 gittatis, serratis, basi in- | tate, serrate, notched at 

 cisis ; fl£>ribus iaversis. j base^- flowers inverted. 



Sp. pi. i.T). 1160. 



Pursh, 1. p. 172. 



Leaves very oblong, r= ther hastate, sagittate, dentate, the lower 

 teetli increasing in length until at the lateral lobes the leaf becomes la- 

 ciniate, pubescent, slightly ciliate. (Peduncles longer than the leavers. 

 Segments of the calyx linear, glabrous. Corolla pale blue; the $ 

 lower petals bearded at base. Pursh.) 



Grows near the mountains of Carolina. Mr, Le Conte* 



Flowers March — April. 



